The Conversation

Scary movies and haunted houses can actually be a coping mechanism that helps you survive.

The soldiers and patriots who made the American Revolution a success included people whose faiths faced discrimination, including Jews and Catholics.

The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech.

In 1935, a hurricane devastated the Florida Keys, killing over 400 people, many of them World War I veterans. Ernest Hemingway joined the relief efforts – and became enraged at government inaction.

Fusion reactors get hot − scientists need materials that can take the heat without deforming and deteriorating.

Big tech and its high-tech products and services play an outsized role in the economy and society. The Trump and Biden-Harris records point to how the next administration might regulate technology.

Victor Ambros received half of the Nobel Prize for his work on microRNAs. Here he talks about the teamwork – and the nematodes – that made the discovery possible.

Many sea creatures lead complex, social lives in the wild and are likely to suffer in farmed conditions. But they aren’t mainstays of the aquaculture industry − yet.

8 million metric tons of plastic wind up in Earth’s oceans annually, where marine animals are exposed to this pollution and its potential health effects.

Whether intentional or not, the way mega-settlements in southeastern Europe from 6,000 years ago were laid out would have cut down on the spread of disease.